Listen for spring peepers chorus in the evening. The females are laying eggs – more than 1,200 eggs will be deposited on each submerged twig or pond weed.

This month:

Fowler Toad

Green frogs, fowler toads and American toads begin breeding season.

Red fox and coyote pups are born.

Alewife, blueback herring and American shad enter rivers and streams, in the annual spawning runs. After laying eggs in freshwater, the adults return to the seas and the newly-hatched young stay in rivers until fall.